Tributes to ex-Boro chairman

Published:11:46Friday 15 June 2012

TRIBUTE has been paid to a former Whitby footballer who later became the chairman who led Middlesbrough out of a financial nightmare.

Colin Henderson, who died last week, played for Whitby Arcadians as a junior before going on national service, before returning to Whitby where he played for Fishburn Park, attending many of the club’s dinners.

As chairman, he helped pull ‘Boro out of liquidation as the Teesside club went from oblivion into the Premier League.